Author Not Credited. From timesofindia.indiatimes.com From the last week of September to the first weekend of October, it is the happiest time of the year for beer lovers all over the world. Wondering why? Well, think mugs and steins overflowing with frothy beer, tables filled with people and friends and family waiting to get a [...]

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No author credited. Posted at benningtonbanner.com BENNINGTON — There are so many brews being poured at this year’s Southern Vermont Homebrew Festival that they had to move the location. The annual festival, now in its fifth year, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 24, from noon to 5 p.m., at 210 South Street (across the [...]

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Written by Dana Cimilluca for online.wsj.com LONDON—Iconic Australian brewer Foster’s Group Ltd. dropped its resistance to a takeover by SABMiller PLC and agreed to a sale to its U.K. rival for a sweetened price of more than $10 billion. The deal values Foster’s at 5.10 Australian dollars a share, or A$9.9 billion (US$10.17 billion), 4% [...]

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Written by Stanley A. Miller II for Milwaukee Tap/The Journal Sentinel There are brewery tours that give visitors some company propaganda and a cup of beer. And then there is the Legacies of Milwaukee Brewery Tour, an all-day junket under the guidance of an archaeologist and a local historian specializing in the city’s brewing culture [...]

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Written by Elizabeth Gunnison for Esquire When former Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer rolled into the capital last week to receive his Medal of Honor, the 23-year-old war hero’s one request was to share a beer with the president. Meyer’s beer of choice is Bud Light, but Obama broke out the good stuff for the occasion: [...]

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  Written by E.D. Cain for Forbes I’ve spilled a good deal of ink on craft beer in the past, discussing how regulations have factored into the big beer monopolies, and questioning whether small brewers need to be unionized the way the big brew shops do. I’ve also written about craft beer as it applies [...]

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  Written by Ryan Farrell for craftbeer.com “You’re a beer judge?” “Yes.” “So, you judge beer?” “Yup.” This is roughly what it sounds like when I’m on a plane, or at a wedding—or sometimes on a plane going to a wedding—and the topic of work and my job at the Brewers Association (BA) comes up. [...]

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Written by Joshua Bernstein for oregonlive.com Photo by Ross William Hamilton If Oregon had a state beer, it would be the India pale ale. Nearly every brewery in the state releases a riff on the bitter, aromatic IPA. And since brewers more or less have access to identical hop breeds (flowery and fragrant Cascade, citrusy [...]

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  News from VT. No author listed. From benningtonbanner.com BENNINGTON — There are so many brews being poured at this year’s Southern Vermont Homebrew Festival that they had to move the location. The annual festival, now in its fifth year, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 24, from noon to 5 p.m., at 210 South [...]

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Hopefully that wasn’t Rare Vos he dumped.-The Professor From www.wxow.com in La Crosse Wisconsin. Author Unattributed MADISON (WKOW) — A Madison man turned himself in Thursday night for pouring a beer over the head of Republican state Rep. Robin Vos. 26-year-old Miles Kristan walked into the police department downtown around 5:30 p.m. He spoke with [...]

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